Study: Birth Control Chemicals Can Harm Fish Populations

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Are birth control pills a major threat to fish in polluted waterways? That is not a question that many people would ask, but researchers at the University of New Brunswick and elsewhere are diving into the problem and what they found may surprise you. According to a study recently published in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, researchers say that even moderate amounts of estrogen from birth control pills, or 17α-ethynyloestradiol...
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